1/14 HCSTC Announcement

Dear HCSTC community members:

This coming Sunday, Jan, 14, will be the 2nd day of our 2023–24 Spring semester and it is a normal school day for us.

For those new families to our campus in this semester, if you want to purchase any Chinese classes textbooks, you need to contact our textbook coordinator, Min Yao at minyao88@gmail.com immediately and let her know the GRADE, TYPE OF CHINESE TEXTBOOKS (we have 4 different type of Chinese textbooks) and # OF COPIES YOU WANT TO BUY. For textbooks, We accept check or cash only. NO CREDIT CARDS, please.

All students attending classes at the HCSTC must have registered and paid tuition plus registration fees in full already, otherwise they will get rejected from our classes. This Sunday, we will check classrooms on those who have not yet paid their tuitions/registration fee in full. To avoid unnecessary embarrassment of your children in front of their peers, pay up your fees immediately; otherwise, unpaid students will bot be allowed in the classrooms. This is only fair to those who have followed the rules and paid up their dues.

The policy is stated clearly on our website and posted here in this email again as a clear reminder.

2. Tuition Payment :

Tuition is due upon registration. To minimize unnecessary close personal contact, we are adding PayPal as a new payment method. Families can choose to mail a check to the School (HCS-TC, P.O. Box 9023, McLean, VA 22102) or pay by PayPal. Again, for the same reason, the School will absorb the PayPal transaction costs to make it convenient to our parents.

The School requires every student to fully pay their tuitions after they register. If a class is full but not all students pay the tuition, the School will drop those unpaid students immediately in order to make rooms for others and to be fair to everyone. On the 1st day of our school, any registered but unpaid students will be dropped from our registration system to ensure the integrity and fairness of the HCSTC.

As many of you should have known, the HCSTC is and has been run by a small group of our volunteers who have sacrificed their time tremendously over the years. In order to prolong this proud tradition, we welcome anyone who is willing to help our school by contributing your time and energy in helping our community’s members and families to learn, advance and improve 

in the curriculums that we offer at the HCSTC. 

Last but not least, according to the recent CDC reports, the Covid, RSVs and flu viruses are getting rampant again in several states, and Virginia unfortunately is listed as one of them.  As a precaution, we strongly recommend all of you to take any necessary actions, such as wearing masks and using sanitizers frequently to protect yourself, your families and our community members at our campus as you see most fit and necessary. For doing that, we wholeheartedly thank you in advance. 

Best wishes,

HCSTC